[Shotimes] California Convention (2004) Itinerary Addendum 2

[George Fourchy]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:50:16 -0400, Ron Porter wrote:

>Sounds good, George!! Are you going to be posting this info on your website
>(at least until Don starting posting info on SHO Club later in the Summer).
>
>Didn't you bury the gas storage tank in your backyard yet??
>
>Going from memory but isn't there a dragstrip at the other road course over
>in Sonoma or Napa (can't remember it's name.....Willow Springs, maybe? I
>think Laguna Seca is down near Monterrey, IIRC).

Yeah!!  I can do that.  I can take pictures of the various places and make some
pages for them.  I don't want to take TOO many good view pictures, otherwise no one
will feel the need to come out here, but I can do some tempting!!  ;-)

No....unfortunately, as you know, gas deteriorates, and it is also formulated for
the various seasons, so it wouldn't do any good to store a bunch of it.  I DID wish
I could have stored 10,000 gallons of propane back when I converted the Boss to run
on that...at that time, in 1972, it was 10 cents a gallon.  I'd have converted
several cars if I had 10,000 gallons of propane stored, and it keeps indefinitely.

There is a dragstrip at Sears Point/Infineon, right down by the start/finish line. 
We would have used that if we had gotten the track, but that didn't work out.  There
HAS to be one around here somewhere....Nick Crimes knows a lot more about that
aspect of car sports than I do, and he is the person in charge of sport driving for
the convention, so I'll defer to him for any input.  I'm sure we can come up with
something by the time we need to.

Yes, Laguna Seca is inland from Monterey a bit.  It's sort of on the top of a
hill...remember, the Boss caught on fire when the taillight bulb fell out of the
housing while I had the brakes on for half an hour coming out of there back in
1969...see the Boss story on my webpage.   Hint!  Hint!

I'll start some pages for the attractions for the convention this week.

George